Myth and Modernity

Dan EDELSTEIN et Bettina LERNER [dir.], Myth and Modernity, New Haven, Yale University Press (Yale French Studies), 2007, 176 p.
ISBN 9780300115161
ISBN-10 0300115164


CONTENTS

Editors’ Preface

Dan Edelstein and Bettina Lerner : Mythomania and Modernity

Part I:  From Nation to Republic

Bettina Lerner : Michelet, Mythologue
Leon Sachs : Teaching to the Choir: The Republican Schoolteacher and the Sanctity of Secularism
Tyler Stovall : The Myth of the Liberatory Republic and the Political Culture of Freedom in Imperial France

Part II:  Reading Revolution

Marie-Hélène Huet : The Face of Disaster
Dan Edelstein : The Modernization of Myth: From Balzac to Sorel
Edward Berenson : Fashoda, Dreyfus, and the Myth of Jean-Baptiste Marchand

Part III:  Mythical Selves

Göran Blix : Heroic Genesis in the Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène
Natacha Allet : Myth and Legend in Antonin Artaud’s Theater
Jean-Marie Apostolidès : Hergé and the Myth of the Superchild
Lawrence Kritzman : De Gaulle’s Mémoires: Self-Portraiture and the Rhetoric of the Nation